Redis 4.x Cookbook

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It's clear that no thread or sub-process spawns or interacts in the polling process. Therefore, the key benefit of this model is that it's a light context switch I/O model, so that it's not costly for context switching. A number of limitations need to be considered for this processing model. The most common problem you may encounter is latency. In the polling model, Redis won't process any other commands until the one being processed finishes. So keep in mind from now on that an unexpected latency will be the first headache for you when using Redis.

Other polling methods, such as poll, select, and so on, are not discussed here due to the limited area. If you are working on platforms other than Linux, you can debug the source ...